Steven J. Brown wrote:
I seem to be having many problems with this release (2.6.1-1.65). One my home computer, after upgrading, my mouse wouldn't work and my sound card could not be found on startup. So I did a new "everything" installation. The mouse problem went away but I get an error message saying that a device couldn't be found. According to sndconfig, I must be using a kernel with modular sound. This problem occurs on every computer I've installed it on.You could tell what messages appeared related to your mouse... Also , how did you upgrade? Using the anaconda installer or yum? on the release notes of test 1 , it says that updates using anaconda werent very stable... what sound card do you have? what system config? did you try system-config-sound (dont forget to raise the volume , as alsa starts muted by default),
I tried to run up2date. I had to uncheck balsa and epiphany. It also said that there was a dependency problem with redhat-lsb, but this package was not present in the list, so I could not uncheck it. I removed teh redhat-lsb package, but that didn't help. Next, I tried updating only the kernel. It took over an hour, using up2date. When rebooting with the new kernel, X wouldn't even start because it can't find the mouse.The change of the mouse device to /dev/input/mice has been discussed on fedora-test-list... If you're using a test release , you really should be on fedora-test-list... The dependency problems you are having is for one single reason: the build system can't build all the updates at once... so some needed packages take longer to be built and reach the mirrors...
I've exhausted all means of updating packages: apt, yum, synaptic, up2date. This is the worst build of Red Hat / Fedora Linux I've ever used. I'm afraid I'll have to reinstall my previous version.
Maybe this is the "worst" because this is the first time that redhat opens the first tests releases to the public.. they used to release only test 3 and 4 to the public .... that's why the test versions of RHL were more stable than FC2t1 is... If you are afraid you'll have to reinstall your previous version , feel free to do so.. But if you're willing to help even with all those issues , join fedora-test-list and create bug reports ... with the help of all the volunteers , the next test versions will become much more stable and when fedora core 2 final reaches the mirrors , it'll be much better than FC1...
just my 2 cents..
-- Pedro Macedo
